Monthly Archives: March 2017

This tutorial introduces how to install QQ/TIM in Linux with Wine, which had been tested on ArchLinux with Wine 2.4. Prerequisites Before start, you need to get the latest Wine. I'm not sure whether QQ/TIM can run on lower version of Wine. In ArchLinux, you can easily get the latest Wine using following command: However, in Debian, you need to install Wine with some more steps. You can see this tutorial. Then, you need to install a helper of Wine, Winetricks. Winetricks is a script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries needed to run some programs in Wine. To install Winetricks, you can use following command: After that, we need to fix some problems manually caused by Winetricks. According…

In this tutorial, you will be setting up a numerical Python development environment for Windows 10. As you might have already realized, Python is rather simple to setup on a Linux/macOS box but as with many open source based projects getting up and running on Windows is never trivial. Good solutions for Windows are, Enthought Canopy, Anaconda (which both provide binary installers for Windows, OS X and Linux) and Python (x, y). Both of these packages include Python, NumPy and many additional packages. However, you can still install these packages manually. Prerequisites Before you start, I assume that you have installed Python with pip on your Windows correctly. You need to download following packages: Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 Source…